Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

Go without the latest iPhone, explore the world and discover...

The reason I sketch your pic at times because in your smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.

No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.